In our last blog post we announced the addition of GitHub and  Bioconductor R documentation and R manuals to Rdocumentation. For the more technical amongst you, I'll give a short, high-level description of what's under the hood of Rdocumentation. Alo... [Read more...]

In our second course on ggplot2 “Data Visualization with ggplot2 (2)”, you will take the step from exploratory to explanatory data visualization. In five chapters, you’ll get to know more ggplot layers and tools needed to create excellent visuals that can be used in many different cases. Begin learning Data ... [Read more...]

Learn how to produce meaningful and beautiful data visualizations with DataCamp’s ggplot2 course series. Be introduced to the principles of good visualizations and the grammar of graphics plotting concept implemented in the ggplot2 package. Learn yourself how to make complex exploratory plots, and be able to make a custom ... [Read more...]

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At DataCamp we are obsessed with how we can make our R courses and learning technology better. As a result, we’re continuously innovating and nothing stays the same for very long.Today, we’re proud to announce we’ve made some huge updates to our free Introduction to R ... [Read more...]

In DataCamp’s brand new course, Introduction to Machine Learning with R, you’ll learn all about the most widely used machine learning techniques such as classification, regression and clustering.  Whether you want to build your personal recommendation engine, become better at picking stocks, or develop your own self-driving car, ... [Read more...]

Today the course creation team at DataCamp released a new online R tutorial called Intermediate R. It is the sequel to our infamous Introduction to R tutorial that has been taken by over 60,000 R enthusiasts. This new tutorial combines short videos with in-browser coding exercises to increase your R knowledge ... [Read more...]

In collaboration with Garrett Grolemund, RStudio's teaching specialist, DataCamp has developed a new interactive course to facilitate reproducible reporting of your R analyses. R Markdown enables you to generate reports straight from your R code, documenting your works as an HTML, pdf or Microsoft document. This course is part of ... [Read more...]

The latest interactive course in the RStudio track is now available on DataCamp: ggvis tutorial. The first part of the tutorial is available for  free, so everyone can now learn interactively how to start creating stunning ggvis data visualizations in R. All courses in the RStudio track are self-paced, and ... [Read more...]

DataCamp just launched its latest interactive course: dplyr. This new course was developed in close collaboration with Garrett Grolemund, RStudio’s master instructor. By taking this dplyr tutorial, you will be challenged one step at a time to master the essentials about transforming data sets fast and intuitively with the ... [Read more...]

The best way to learn is at your own pace. Combining the interactive R learning environment of DataCamp and the expertise of Prof. Conway of Princeton, we offer you an extensive online course on introductory statistics with R.  Start learning now...Whether you are a professional using statistics in your ... [Read more...]

Together with the key people behind the data.table package, Matt Dowle and Arun Srinivasan,  DataCamp developed a brand new interactive course to bring your data analysis skillset up to date with the essentials of the powerful data.table package. Learn more on the data.table tutorial... The popularity of ... [Read more...]

Now that our 'Learning R' -series is coming to an end (for those who have missed it, have a look at our Twitter or Facebook ), it is time to announce the start of a new series : R-fiddle of the Week. Every week, we will share an R-fiddle link that contains ... [Read more...]

Quandl is a "wikipedia" for numerical data that allows you to rapidly search  through 8 million ready-to-use data sets. At DataCamp, we created a free Quandl Tutorial on how to use the corresponding R package to access Quandl data from within R.   As every real world data analyst knows, finding and ... [Read more...]

We’re happy to announce that as of today, DataCamp has added two new and free online interactive  R courses to its curriculum: 'Data Analysis and Statistical Inference' and 'Introduction to Computational Finance'.  These will be the biggest DataCamp R courses to date, so we’re very excited to find ... [Read more...]

www.R-fiddle.org is an early stage beta that provides you with a free and powerful environment to write, run and share R-code right inside your browser. It even offers the option to include packages so you can really run R in the cloud. Since a couple of days it's ... [Read more...]

DataMind is the first free online Interactive Learning Platform for R. Through an in-browser coding environment we offer exercise-based learning-by-doing. Our goal is to build a fun learning experience for data analysis and R, while allowing everyone to create courses! You can check out an early stage beta version at ... [Read more...]

Last week, I was working on an educational R project when I needed to consult the help files of different R packages and functions online. After doing some Google searches, I realized that finding an easy-to-use tool was not as simple as I had expected. The closest that I got ... [Read more...]

Main takeaways from the survey on R in education There is a need to train students in R since a large majority of respondents that use R professionally expect its market share to further increase. Large interest from both academics and students in online interactive R and statistics courses. Highest ... [Read more...]